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While the new year has just kicked off, we are excited to share the most viewed blog posts of last year. We published 192 new posts on this blog, In Custodia Legis, in 2024. These posts are authored by staff, both on the blog team and guest bloggers, as well as intern bloggers, from across different parts of the Law Library and the Library of Congress. The blog team features …

Really. And no, I’m not about to follow that statement up with something annoying like “…Because I love it! Haha!” either. I know the general term has its uses but I could do without the retro gaming mindset entirely, if I’m honest. I think we’d all be better off chucking that artificial distinction in the bin. If I happen to say I like a game made in 1981, or for …

The top comment I receive everywhere I speak and from every Local Conversation I meet with is “I want to change my community but have no idea where to start.” This is generally followed up with a question: “How do I find other people who also want to make our community stronger?”These questions are raised after someone observes a local struggle or is inspired by a fellow Strong Towns member …

My favorite songs of 2024.

Editor’s note: The third edition of “Cut & Dried” should arrive in February. You can sign up to be notified when it arrives here. In this post, author Richard Jones explains his update to Chapter 6. Rombald’s Moor: The opening image to Chapter 6. In 2021, I decided I ought to update “Cut & Dried,” and the third reprint of it at the end of 2024 was a good opportunity …

I had such a massive book hangover after finishing “The Town and the City” that I was in a real state of indecision about what to read next! I couldn’t even pick up a book until I’d jotted down some of my thoughts about the Kerouac, and once I’d done that I decided to go for the perfect palate cleanser – a British Library Crime Classic! The recent lovely review …

It’s now 2025, thank God. And if you’re a chick, wiith the coming of a new year comes, of course, horoscopes. I am a Libra (Libra sun, Libra moon, Libra rising), so it’s not exactly my year. But my horoscope … Continue reading →

“I’m worried that I’m not worried,” I said. The first time I uttered that sentence was in 2016. I was sitting underneath the blue awning of Wheatfields Restaurant & Bar in Saratoga Springs, New York, with the writer Claire Messud. I had just graduated with my MFA in fiction and was attending a summer writing conference at Skidmore College. It was my second time in workshop with Claire, and my …

I haven't been doing much work on my model train layout. However, I do like to stop by my favourite train store, Ware House Hobbies, now and then.

Reading Time: 35 minutes New year, new worries, same old Web Curios! Even in the maelstrom of moderately-unsettling uncertainty that is Q2 of the 21st Century, rest assured that I am once again here to greet you with open arms, a tear-streaked face and a hug that you will initially find welcoming but will, as it continues without showing signs of stopping, begin to make you feel uncomfortably like I …

In my last post I said that I ought to write a guide to helping those caught up in a disaster. I truly hoped it would be a long time before this type of thing was needed, but unfortunately I … Continue reading →

I think not!This is a modern 80s built house, and the ivy has been allowed to grow right the way across the upstairs window (the house had been unoccupied for a while), covering it completely, and heading on upwards into the gutter and into the roof.I sent my colleague up the ladder (I'm not daft!) to pull it off, and we found that the ivy had forced a way inside …

“If you aren’t relearning how to learn, you aren’t really learning!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Let’s go back for a moment to item #3 on my list of ‘25 Strategies for 2025” – which was to be relentless in knowledge discovery. As I wrote, we are seeing massive growth in the generation of information. the total amount of digital data created worldwide doubled approximately every two years in the 2010s …

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January 10, 2025 The Reluctant Traveler We think that you should go on this site visit, because the Superintendent says that you two have never met…” WHAT kind of chocolate-frosted nonsense is this? She worked with the Superintendent for a half a day, at the end of the LAST site visit, drafting the recommendations for update and next steps. They sat at a table together for hours… Still, if they …